Dan & Carol Hatch

Dan Hatch is the Maine State Coordinator for Straight Ahead Ministries. He is responsible for opening juvenile residential facilities to ministry, seeking gifted and qualified volunteers to serve in those institutions and providing Bible studies, mentoring, discipleship and aftercare options for those committed to the Lord through the ministry. The ministry is currently serving in four residential programs including the two juvenile lock-up in Maine using 18 trained volunteers.

Dan was called to the Straight Ahead in 2000 as Director of Operations where he served for three years. He and his wife, Carol, moved to Maine in the summer of 2003 to assume his current position.

Prior to joining Straight Ahead, Dan was the Administrative Pastor at a church in Michigan. Before making a change to full time Christian work, Dan worked for more than 25 years in manufacturing management in the eastern United States and Texas.

Dan is originally from New Hampshire and his wife, Carol, is from Maine. They have two adult children and four grandchildren. The Hatches reside in Turner, Maine.